Improvement in coal-scuttles



c. s. IRWIN. COAL-SCUTTLE.

Patented Jan. 23

ATTORNEYS.

N-PETEIS. PHDTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. n, c.

UNITED STATES PATENT A OFFIGE.

lHARLES S. IRWIN, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

' IMPROVEMENT IN COAL-SCUTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,48 1, dated-January23, 1877; application filed December 4, 1876. V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S IRWIN, of

St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, haveinvented a new and Improved Goal-Scuttle, of which the following is aspecification Figure lis a vertical section on line as w in Fig. 2.,Fig. 2 is a bottom view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing,and then pointed out in the claim.

closed by a slide, 0, that passes through a slit cut in the side of thescuttle, and is guided by U-shaped strips 6 e, which are attached to thebody of the scuttle at each side, an

aperture, f, corresponding in size to the opening in the bottom 3. Astop, g, is formed on the slide, to prevent it from being entirelywithdrawn from the scuttle. The scuttle is filled in the usual way,while the opening in the bottom is closed by the slide. When itscontents are to be emptied into the stove the scuttle is placed in theopening in the stovetop, and the slide 0 is drawn out until its openingcoincides with the opening in the scuttle-bottom, when the coal runsfrom the scuttle into the stove, and all spilling and dust is avoided.

In addition to the advantages mentioned, it has the advantage of beingcheaply constructed, requiring no special machinery or apparatus in itsmanufacture.

Having thus described my invention, I am aware that it is not new to usea slide inthe bottom of a coal-scuttle, so that the coal may flowautomatically through the bottom; but

What I claim is- A new article of manufacture, consisting of the conicalbody A, with knees a, and the concave bottom B, with median slide, asshownand described, to form a coal-scuttle adapted to be used withmagazine-stoves, as specified.

CHARLES STUART IRWIN.

Witnesses:

JOHNA. DOLMAN, D. P. WALLINGFORD.

